What are some of the best web & print resources to aid my exploration of Japanese film?
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posted by keith0718
on Nov 11, 2008 -
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Does a movie studio releasing many, many different video formats (multiple SDVDs, HD DVD, UMD, VOD) of a particular movie indicate that this movie performs well at retail? Or is it more likely a desperate attempt to recoup from a disastrous theatrical run?
posted by TheManChild2000
on Nov 11, 2008 -
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Help me identify this short film. A man was having dinner in a big table when he notices the figure of an old lady through the shadows of the room next to where he was eating. Although there were more people with him he was the only one that saw her. When he finished he asks one of the servants if there was an old woman working in the house. He is told that indeed there was a lady with his description but that she had died earlier that day.
posted by alasdefuego
on Oct 8, 2008 -
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Most acclaimed or your favorite movies about life during the Great Depression or the Great Panic of 1873?
posted by DirtyCreature
on Oct 2, 2008 -
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I'm creating a basic study guide for the topic of Ethics in Film. I have a basic list compiled. What are films that address a particular moral issue that you feel should be on this list? (Recommendations for a basic text as companion guide would also be appreciated.)
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posted by strangeleftydoublethink
on Sep 29, 2008 -
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Windows Media Player and Center in Vista suck at subtitles for the old b&w foreign flicks I watch. Subtitles are white and get washed out when the picture is white. Is there a hack or some other media player which will render the subtitles better (outlined or in yellow). (FYI: subtitles for these films show up great on my Sony DVD player.)
posted by keith0718
on Sep 18, 2008 -
7 answers
I often download documentaries, and generally love them, and frequently feel like I want to give back to the director.
Monetarily-wise, that is, as perhaps I didn't pay for them.
What do you think of a service that allowed for paypal or such donation to individual directors? Could it work?
Alternately, directors of small films could set up a link on their websites, and one could spread the idea memetically.
I'm not looking to cash in on this, just to get feedback on an idea of how to assuage my guilt and help support those who make films worthy of support.
posted by aschwa5
on Aug 1, 2008 -
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Movie recommendations in which the main character gives up his/her own success or place in society to pursue an unpopular social cause or to help unpopular person or people. Bonus points for movies based on actual events.
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posted by strangeleftydoublethink
on Jun 23, 2008 -
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I want to start a log of films I see, to include director, lead actors, genre, date viewed, etc, and my own review of the flick. This is for my own use only. Can anyone offer a recommendation for software to use/how to set it up in something standard like Excel so that I can search on any category but still have somewhat extensive space for my eloquent prose? Might also extend its use to books and music. I'm a mac user.
Thanks!
posted by GrowBD
on Jun 2, 2008 -
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Old movie question involving US military, China, torture, and other things. What movie was this?
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posted by crazylegs
on May 17, 2008 -
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Are We Done Yet? was the sequel to an original film, but was weirdly also a remake of the classic Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Along the same lines, Ocean's Twelve was based on an unrelated script first intended as a John Woo project. Can we think of any other examples of a sequel to an original movie starting life as an unconnected film?
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posted by Ian A.T.
on Apr 30, 2008 -
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A childhood memory of two science fiction films has been nagging me lately. I have just a little to go on...
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posted by I, Credulous
on Apr 17, 2008 -
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I show movies to assisted living residents at a retirement community. Movies over 90 minutes tend to be too long. I need a list of quality movies (made before 1970) that are 90 minutes long or less. Any suggestions of movies or where to find such a list?
posted by zzazazz
on Apr 16, 2008 -
16 answers
I'm trying to find the title of a British film that came out a year or two ago about a young Indian guy and a young English girl having a relationship and how he has to hide it from his friends and family.
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posted by Hates_
on Feb 28, 2008 -
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I'm looking for a short film I watched online of an (fictional) surveillance of an apartment, with the camera pointed for the entire length of the film at a black and white monitor in the van and the four remote feeds displaying on it.
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posted by Inkslinger
on Jan 28, 2008 -
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Is there a site that will enable me to compile a list of movies I want to see and notify me if any of them show in a configurable fairly wide area? Yahoo Movies lets me build a to-see list, but I have to laboriously plug in a bunch of zip codes for each film (because its range is very narrow). For example, I've only seen LOTR on DVD, and every once in a while a theater revives them as a special thing and I miss it. And, just generally, I'm interested in obscure indie flicks that release only sporadically, and I lack the patience to search each title every few days. Now.....if there were such a site that could do the above plus track showings of my top-predicted films at MOVIELENS, that'd be great (but way too much to hope for). FYI, movielens (movielens.umn.edu) is an awesome groupware prediction engine.
posted by jimmyjimjim
on Jan 4, 2008 -
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What is the stringed instrument that plays the wistful tune at the beginning of the movie Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood? Mandolin? Banjo? Ukelele? I want to buy one.
posted by zaebiz
on Dec 21, 2007 -
6 answers
After months of research, we've finally discovered
the film that was shown the night my theatre opened in 1919. The question is, how would I go about finding out if there are existing prints of this movie available?
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posted by Newbornstranger
on Dec 9, 2007 -
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Need help finding a movie recommendation site where the user enters several favorite movie titles, and the site returns results based on other users entering those same movie titles...
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posted by MrBCID
on Nov 27, 2007 -
14 answers
Moving out to the country and have a hunger to watch some good old (or recent) Westerns. What are your favorites and why?
posted by zaebiz
on Nov 15, 2007 -
34 answers
I love stories about transformations and life changes, be they cheesy or serious. Recommend some to me!
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posted by different
on Nov 12, 2007 -
33 answers
Before the advent of computer generated graphics, how were elaborate opening titles and scrolling movie credits created for films?
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posted by punkfloyd
on Aug 26, 2007 -
10 answers
I need a Mac app that will let me search for movies and showtimes like Sherlock used to.
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posted by Wild_Eep
on Jun 7, 2007 -
11 answers
Is there an easy-to-use site that lists all movies, theatres and showtimes in NYC. Please, God, PLEASE don't say citysearch!
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posted by grumblebee
on May 27, 2007 -
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A few years ago I saw a movie that I now remember vaguely but vividly. It was sort of an arty drama, and it might have been European. The story concerned a man and a woman vacationing(?) in a house near a beach. The man was in some sort of psychological distress, eventually culminating in some bloody self-mutilation. The title may have referenced Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in some way, but I could be misremembering.
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posted by bubukaba
on May 26, 2007 -
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